Trinidad Lost Blends

Grant Welsh says:

"Can't wait to light this beauty!"

Trinidad Lost Blends are very limited cigars due to the fact that they were unique vintage blends that had been aging in their factory's "Cedar Room" for a very long time. Once they are gone, they are gone. The wrapper is a Vintage Java Island Shade-grown, binder is Dominican Olor and fillers are a blend of Vintage Dominican Olor, Vintage Dominican Piloto and Vintage American Connecticut Broadleaf.

Cigar Origin

Dominican Republic

Most cigars are manufactured in the Caribbean and Central America.The Dominican Republic is the world's first producer of cigars. Most factories are located in Santiago, in the center of the island, and in close proximity to the tobacco fields grown in the fertile Cibao Valley. While tobacco and cigars have always traditionally been produced in the Dominican Republic, many Cuban cigar makers established in the Dominican Republic after the Cuban communist revolution, elevating the quality of Dominican cigars.

Strength

Medium

Wrapper Color

Natural

Cigar wrapper color varies from green (Double Claro or Candela) to black (Maduro or Oscuro) with a full range of browns in between.Natural wrapper, also known as Colorado Claro, is light brown in color.

Wrapper

Indonesian

The wrapper is the last tobacco leaf to be rolled on the cigar, so it is the one the smoker will see.Tobacco is grown in many islands of the Archipelago but, as far as cigars are concerned, Sumatra and Java are the ones. Sumatra Wrappers are worldwide known. Central Java (Vorstenland) and East Java (Besuki) give fillers and wrappers in abundance. Indonesia is a key country for cigar tobacco.

Binder

Dominican Republic Olor

The binder is a full tobacco leaf that is used to roll the cigar, binding the filler tobaccos together.Dominican Republic is a traditional tobacco-growing country. Dominican Olor tobacco is mild flavored but very aromatic.

Filler

Dominican Republic

Filler is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the "guts" of the cigar.

USA Broadleaf

Filler is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the "guts" of the cigar.

Rolled by

Handmade

Handmade cigars are completely made by hand from start to finish.

Manufacturer

Altadis USA

Altadis U.S.A. is one of the world's largest cigar manufacturers with over 5,000 employees. They have been making cigars since 1918 with factories in the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Florida and Richmond, Virginia.

Great draw for a non Cuban. Pleasant mild taste with a nice white ash with an even burn. A rest, and aging period of 6 months for a new box in a fully aged Humidor is highly recommended in order to appreciate the tangy mellow taste, and aromas produced by this cigar.

This was a nice cigar, the draw was really tight but I was able to fix it. I thought it was going to be better than it was but sometimes that happens. Overall it had good flavor, burned well. I probably won't buy another but it was worth trying out.

Besides the beautiful presentation,curiosity was the main reason to try this stick. The name reminds me of an Indiana Jones movie from the eighties and for me that means adventure, the excitement of the unknown...
A perfecto shape and a Indonesian wrapper, two of my favorites things, are being combined to create a unique cigar. First puff and it's all nutty and leathery with some pepper in the back, the draw is a little tight at the beginning but since I didn't cut the foot of the cigar it is perfectly normal and it opens up a few puffs later. The second half or the second third (I'm not sure about the right term) is more about earthy and coffee flavors with some sweetness. One can feel there's some spice on it but at the same time there's a lack of the pepper it had at the beginning and feels like a completely different smoke. The strength goes from medium to medium plus near the end. The Java wrapper and the Dominican Olor binder work very well together, adding some good vintage Dominican and Connecticut Broadleaf to the mixture results in a unique and pleasant smoke.
Give yourself the right to be adventurous and try this stick, it's definitely worth to try.